Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - General

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insights into both his writings and the visual economy of the Victorian world. Each essay examines Ruskin's relationship with an individual artist or a distinct aspect of art practice. J.M.W. Turner, D.G. Rossetti, W. Holman Hunt and E. Burne-Jones are among those artists discussed whose personal relationships with Ruskin affected his critical writing. Ruskin's attitude to women artists and his approach to the teaching of art are given special...

A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's three-volume Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the animation of Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other often-neglected areas and introducing over fifty previously undiscovered artists. Full of first-hand, never before investigated, and elsewhere unavailable information, Animation: A World...

You have to be tough to be kind. That's what I've learned from you, Granddad. Tough and fearless and strong. So that's what I'm going to be.

Naples, 1606. Inside an unfinished church, a painting is emerging from the darkness. The Seven Acts of Mercy is Caravaggio's masterpiece - and his first painting since he killed a man and fled Rome. As the artist works, he is fueled by anger, self-loathing and his driving need to create a work that speaks of compassion in a violent world.

Bootle, the present day. A retired dock worker teaches his grandson, as around them a...

Der reich illustrierte Band prasentiert eine Auswahl der rund 8.000 Objekte umfassenden Kostum- und Modersammlung der Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien. Aufbauend auf der historisch gewachsenen Sammlung, der Fachbibliothek und Lehre, hat sich die Sammlung zu einem hochqualifizierten -University Museum- fur Bekleidung entwickelt.

Der Bogen spannt sich von der Alltagskleidung bis zu exklusiver Haute Couture. Die altesten Stucke stammen aus dem 18. Jhdt., die neuesten Erwerbungen reichen bis in die Gegenwart, unter ihnen Objekte u.a von Fred Adlmuller, Gertrud Hochsmann, Karl...

Dieser Sammelband lotet die facettenreiche Praxis des Imitats, Zitats, Plagiats sowie der Herstellung von 'Originalen' in Literatur und Kultur der Fruhen Neuzeit aus. Die versammelten Fallstudien behandeln nicht nur Gegenstande germanistischer Literaturwissenschaft, sie bewegen sich auch auf dem Gebiet anderer Philologien sowie im Bereich von Malerei, Architektur und Druckgraphik. Ihr gemeinsames Anliegen ist, die Epoche der Fruhen Neuzeit von ihr eigentumlichen Organisationsformen des kunstlerischen Materials her in den Blick zu nehmen. So leistet der Band einen Beitrag zu einer...